http://boredomtherapy.com/colorized-history-photos/?as=6022257653284 Do you think that these colourized photos of historical events and people are an improvement on the original black and white? How about this one of Charlie Chaplin and Helen Keller meeting in 1918. I would like to see the original.
Category Archives: Cooperative Arts
Charlie Chaplin’s Profound Message in The Great Dictator, 1940
http://www.purposefairy.com/75351/charlie-chaplins-profound-message-to-humanity/ Charlie Chaplin’s final speech in The Great Dictator (1940) dates itself by its style and tone, but still resonates today.
A DOOR THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE: Submit now and often for an Award for the Winning Entry
A DOOR THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 31, 2015. SUBMIT YOUR IMAGES AND PHOTOS TODAY It is remarkable how many of the photos in the IMAGINE ANTIGONISH collection feature doors and doorways, portals and gates, often as a frame for family photos or activities. The Imagine Antigonish team […]
Lou Bopp’s Photos of the Last Remaining Old School Mississippi Blues Musicians
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/12/lou-bopp_n_6445360.html?ir=Good+News&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000023 Since 2008, photographer Lou Bopp has been capturing the now elderly men who constitute the Mississippi Delta Blues musicians of a previous era. With calloused hands, worn faces and twinkling eyes, the blues artists are living remnants of a bygone time, one of juke joints and fiery soul. James “Super Chikan” Johnson, bluesman, in his guitar […]
Don Harron dead age 90
http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/canadian-actor-writer-don-harron-dead-at-90-1.2193644 For those of us who grew up with Anne of Green Gables and then Charlie Farquharson on Hee Haw, can anyone doubt that this icon of Canadian culture was good for our health? Charlie Farquharson, a fictitious folksy story teller from Parry Sound, Ont. who poked fun at almost anything Canadian, became a cult classic […]
Come From Away on Land and Sea, CBC, January 4, 2015
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/More+Shows/Land+and+Sea/ID/2645849603/ This first episode of CBC’s Land and Sea, broadcast on January 4, 2015 and entitled Come From Away, is tagged as “Sometimes it takes a ‘come from away’ to breathe new life into struggling rural communities.” The Maritime communities this episode focuses on include: Little Sand, Prince Edward Island (PEI); Inverness, Cape Breton; and […]
What are you doing on New Year’s Eve?
Who remembers dancing to this 1947 song, made popular by Margaret Whiting? Who was singing/playing this in Antigonish? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-f1HcY4gAs
Wong Family Christmas, 1950s
WONG FAMILY CHRISTMAS, 1950s Photograph: Courtesy of Mary Rose Wong Who is the little girl in the sailor suit? Does anyone remember wearing a sailor suit dress? And how about black patent shoes with straps? Or how about the old-fashioned Christmas tree lights? They would be banned today, as energy inefficient. And have you noticed […]
Object: Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949
Max Burchartz, “Lotte (Eye)” (1928), gelatin silver print, 11 7/8 x 15 3/4 in (30.2 x 40 cm), the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection, acquired through the generosity of Peter Norton (© 2014 Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn) (all photos courtesy of the Museum of Modern […]
The First Christmas Card, 1843
The article from the Independent, UK, connects both the first Christmas card (1843) and Jingle Bells to drunkenness and encouraging intemperance. This was in the heyday of the temperance movement. They also suggest that Americans would not know what Christmas pudding or Christmas crackers were. Don’t you think most Canadians would know http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/hold-your-temperance-new-life-for-the-first-christmas-card-9937920.html […]